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From: rickers@drexel.UUCP (Rick Wargo)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: computer follies
Message-ID: <700@drexel.UUCP>
Date: 6 Sep 88 20:25:03 GMT
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Organization: Drexel University, Phila., Pa.
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In article <1123@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> hiebeler@cs.rpi.edu (Dave Hiebeler) writes:
> There was one pretty good story posted about things happening to floppy
>disks, such as sticking them up on a cabinet using magnets...

When I first started out using computers in high school, I had carried
around 3 5 1/4" Apple ][ floppies that had all of the programs I had
ever written.  One day while jumping out of a car with books in hand
and floppies in books, running to escape the rain, the books slid out
of my hand and the floppies went right into a big puddle of muddy
water.  I rushed into the house, washed the floppies in the sink and
put a hair drier to them to dry them off.  The next day, I plugged the
floppies in the computer and they still worked!  To this day I still
have the floppies, although I do not use them often at all ;-).  The
first floppy even has the sides slit such that I can remove the disk.
And the disks are still readable.

						Rickers
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